Before writing this, I closed my eyes. I allowed myself to rest. I went from, “think, think, think” to nothing. And nothing felt good. Nothing worked. Nothing is my success. Today. I used to have another kind of success. I was a hedge fund manager, web developer, producer, investor, corporate employee, CEO, writer. I still do […] Read On…
I ordered pancakes and he told me about the last time he was shot in the head. The bullet went through the top of my head, he said. Then he leaned down and showed me the entry point. Then, he said, it went out through the back of my ear. He twisted around, pointed to […] Read On…
At my worst, this happened: I drank all night until I would pass out. I’d show up late for meetings, do deals with people who would rip me off, run away from good opportunities, invest in bad opportunities. Have friends for what they can do for me rather than because I felt good to be […] Read On…
He didn’t have permission. But he did it anyway. And one day Elon Musk called him. “He was either going to make life really horrible on me or he was going to cooperate with the book” said Ashlee Vance, author of the New York Times bestseller and Wall Street Journal’s “best books of the year,” […] Read On…
It’s important I address several things first before I really start into the meat of this article. First, when I tweet about this post many people will respond, “I’ll read it…later” or some variation of that. That’s a funny joke. I get it. Second, while I was writing this post, I procrastinated pretty heavily. No […] Read On…
I suck at photography. I take a photo and, to me, it looks like puke. It looks dead. I wish I were better. Chase Jarvis is a great photographer. He’s won all sorts of awards. I wanted to talk to him. So I lied. He asked me if he could interview me for Chase Jarvis […] Read On…
When you wait for a “somebody,” you’ll be a nobody. Bukowski wrote every day for twenty years without any hope of publishing. He sent out his poems to the smallest literary journals. He’d give readings in bars and classrooms on his own dime. Finally, John Martin from Black Sparrow Press offered to pay him $100 […] Read On…
